An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere: And Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, Band 1W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773 |
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... five miles ; and we then fteered along the fhore caft by the compass , and after having run about five leagues , we faw a remarkable head- land , with a rock at a little distance from it , bearing E. S. E. E. diftant three leagues ...
... five miles ; and we then fteered along the fhore caft by the compass , and after having run about five leagues , we faw a remarkable head- land , with a rock at a little distance from it , bearing E. S. E. E. diftant three leagues ...
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... five leagues : at half an hour after five it bore S.S. E. diftant two leagues ; and we then steered from it E. S. E. five leagues , to three low rocky iflands which lie about two miles from the main . From these islands we fteered ...
... five leagues : at half an hour after five it bore S.S. E. diftant two leagues ; and we then steered from it E. S. E. five leagues , to three low rocky iflands which lie about two miles from the main . From these islands we fteered ...
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... five o'clock , in the morning of the 2d , we weighed , Saturday 2 . and towed with the tide , but at ten , having no wind , and finding that we drove again to the eastward , we anchored , with the ftream anchor in fifteen fathom , upon ...
... five o'clock , in the morning of the 2d , we weighed , Saturday 2 . and towed with the tide , but at ten , having no wind , and finding that we drove again to the eastward , we anchored , with the ftream anchor in fifteen fathom , upon ...
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OF | 185 |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION Page i | 194 |
An Explanation of the Nautical Terms not generally understood which | 207 |
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